Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.